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Measuring of the coverage area of a base transceiver stationRelated Patent Categories: Telecommunications, Transmitter And Receiver At Separate Stations, Having Measuring, Testing, Or Monitoring Of System Or PartMeasuring of the coverage area of a base transceiver station description/claimsThe Patent Description & Claims data below is from USPTO Patent Application 20060234640, Measuring of the coverage area of a base transceiver station. Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS [0001] The present application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/148,373, filed on May 28, 2002, which claims benefit of a P.C.T. application (WO10/41486) that has a priority date of Dec. 3, 1999. [0002] The present invention relates to the measuring of the coverage area of a base transceiver station. Particularly, but not necessarily, the invention relates to the determining and optimising of the place of location and the coverage area of a cellular network's new base transceiver station (BTS) to be commissioned. [0003] Services of a cellular network can be improved by increasing the base transceiver station density. The determining of the place of location of a new base transceiver station is important so that the base transceiver station would serve sufficiently well just that area the serving of which it is designed for. Among other things, the topography of the terrain, the vegetation, buildings, as well as different kinds of structures and objects inside the buildings influence the size of the coverage area significantly. Therefore, for example, when determining the coverage areas of so-called office base stations intended for indoors, such as offices, it is not possible to solely resort to simulations and design tools by which the aim is to forecast the coverage area of a base transceiver station making use of a map or the floor plan of a building. For determining the real coverage area, measurements must also be made in advance in the base transceiver station's planned place of location and in its vicinity. [0004] One much used method to determine the optimum place of location of a base transceiver station is to set separate test transmitter equipment to transmit as a test signal a radio signal from the tentatively planned base transceiver station location and to measure this test signal with a measuring device in the desired service area, i.e. in the coverage area. [0005] However, this type of method has several defects. The radiation pattern of the signal of the test transmitter, i.e. the test signal, does not correspond to the radiation pattern of the actual base transceiver station and neither does the radiation power of the test transmitter accurately correspond to the radiation power of the actual base transceiver station, whereupon the measurer may draw erroneous conclusions as for the coverage area and the transmission power at which the real base transceiver station should finally be set for actual traffic. With most measuring devices, only the power level that occurs at the test signal frequency can be measured. It is therefore impossible to fully make sure that the test signal that arrives in the measuring device is sufficiently free of interference, because the test signal does not necessarily contain coded information, as do signals that normally are transmitted in a cellular network. In addition, the test transmitter equipment is expensive additional equipment which the network planner or base station commissioning engineer has to carry with him, and which has no other use. [0006] Now, a new arrangement has been invented for determining the coverage area of a base transceiver station. According to a first aspect of the invention, there is implemented a method for determining the coverage area of a base transceiver station of a cellular network. [0007] It is characteristic of the method that the method comprises: connecting a wireless terminal to a base transceiver station using a local connection: commanding from the wireless terminal connected to the base transceiver station over said local connection the base transceiver station to transmit a signal which has a specific frequency; commanding said or some other wireless terminal to receive said frequency; measuring the received power of said signal in said or said some other wireless terminal; displaying the numerical value of said received power on the display of said or said some other wireless terminal for determining the coverage area of the base transceiver station. [0008] According to a second aspect of the invention, there is implemented a wireless terminal [0009] A wireless terminal for determining the coverage area of a base transceiver station. [0010] It is characteristic of the wireless terminal that the wireless terminal comprises: means for connecting the wireless terminal to the base transceiver station using a local connection; means for commanding the base transceiver station to transmit a signal that has a specific frequency; means for receiving the signal transmitted by the base transceiver station and for measuring the power of the received signal; means for displaying the numerical value of the power of said received signal on the display of the wireless terminal for determining the coverage area of the base transceiver station. [0011] According to a third aspect of the invention, there is implemented a computer program product executable in a wireless terminal for determining the coverage area of a base transceiver station. [0012] It is characteristic of the computer program product that it comprises a program code: for making the wireless terminal connected to the base transceiver station command the base transceiver station to transmit a signal which has a specific frequency; for making the wireless terminal receive said frequency; for making the wireless terminal measure the received power of said signal; Continue reading about Measuring of the coverage area of a base transceiver station... Full patent description for Measuring of the coverage area of a base transceiver station Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims Click on the above for other options relating to this Measuring of the coverage area of a base transceiver station patent application. ###  How KEYWORD MONITOR works... a FREE service from FreshPatents1. Sign up (takes 30 seconds). 2. Fill in the keywords to be monitored. 3. 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